Calendar



April 27, 1943. L. B. MART IN j CALENDAR Filed Oct. 6. 1942 FIGQZ FIG. 3

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' LESTER B. MARTIN INVENTORT Patented Apr. 27, 1943 UNETEE STATES E ATEN E' QFHCE CALENDAR Lester B. Martin, Columbus, Ohio Application October 6, 1942, Serial No. 461,004

2 Claims. (Cl. 40119) The invention to be hereinafter described 1"- lates to calendars.

There are, of course, a great variety of calendars for various purposes. One very widely used type is made to hang on a wall from a hook, nail or other suitable securing means passed through an eyelet, looped cord or the like suspension means in or attached to its upper edge. In many such there is a backing or support of relatively heavy, strong and still card board or similar inaterial to which the pad of the calendar proper is made fast by stapling or in any other suitable and well known manner, the backing extending considerably above the pad and bearing the eyelet or other attaching or suspending device or means. It is that type of calendar with which the present invention deals. Heretofore, in such calendars the separate sheets have usually been simply torn off as used. In many instances it is desired to save the used sheets for reference to data or memoranda entered thereon. In such cases they are folded over at the back of the support or backing and held in place, clumsily, by rubber band or in some other way. There is no compact, convenient and practical way of doing that with the present calendars, without creating a bulging and bulky bunch of sheets at the back which lies between the calendar and wall and forces the calendar awkwardly out from the wall and into place as an obstruction and a nuisance where it is constantly getting caught and knocked down or damaged.

The main objects of the present invention are to provide a wall calendar of the above general type eliminating the above and other objections and embodying means whereby used sheets may be easily retained for reference and held in secured position at the back of the support fiat and compact, between the wall and sup-port, in such manner as to permit the calendar to remain substantially in its original position against the wall, substantially parallel to the wall, and not appreciably spaced therefrom.

In order to more clearly disclose the construction, operation and use of the invention, reference should be had to the accompanying drawing forming part of the present application.

Throughout the several figures of the drawing like reference characters designate the same parts in the different Views.

In the drawing:

Fig. 1 is a front plan view or elevation before any sheets have been used.

Fig. 2 is a back plan view; and,

Fig. 3 is a right hand edge or side elevation of Fig. 1, after a considerable number of the sheets have been used and turned over at the rear.

Referring to the drawing in detail, indicates a calendar pad of usual and well known construction made up with pages or leaves bound across the top so that they open upwardly. The support or backing 2 of this pad may be made of any suitable material such as relatively heavy strong card board provided near its top with the usual eyelet or looped cord or other suspension device by which the support and calendar may be hung from a hook or nail. For a reason to later appear, the back or support is appreciably wider than the calendar pad. At a point somewhat greater than the length of the calendar pad above the bottom edge of the support, the support is cut out laterally, providing two alined oblong openings 3 separated by a relatively wide strip which is integral with the back along a line coincident with the upper edges of openings 3. Kerfs or cuts 4 are made from the upper edges of openings 3 to within a short distance from the bottom edge of the support and spaced apart a distance equal to the distance between the openings 3. This provides an elongated somewhat resilient, flexible strip or tongue 5 from the upper edges of openings 3 to near the lower edge of the support. Although the cuts 3 are shown parallel this is, of course, not essential. By this construction, the two openings 3 actually merge into one with the upper part of tongue 5 flexibly bridging it between and being integral with the upper edge but entirely free of the lower edge.

Here, it should be noted that the combined length of openings 3 and'width of tongue 5 is just equal to the full width of the calendar sheets and pad I, so that the sheets, when folded over to the rear of the support may pass readily through the openings 3 between tongue 5 and the back of the support, without binding in the openings 3, as in Fig. 3.

In assembled relation, as in Fig. l, the pad is stapled or otherwise suitably secured to back or support 2 at the upper end of the pad I, with its upper edge immediately below the openings 3 and very close to the lower edge thereof and about midway between the longitudinal edges of the support 2 so that the upper edge of the pad is coextensive with the lower edges of the openings 3.

As each sheet of the calendar is used it will be opened or turned back in the usual manner, vertically, along its bound edge. The free edge will be threaded through openings 3 and drawn vertically down the back or" the support between tongue 5 and the back of the support. In Fig. 3

an edge view of the calendar is shown after a number of sheets have been used and turned back. Tongue 5, being a strip integrally connected at both ends to the support, it is under considerable tension to return to normal position in the same plane as the support and, accordingly, continually exerts corresponding pressure on the reversed used calendar sheets to keep them held flat and snug against the rear side of the support I. It is, of course, simpler and easier to remove the calendar from its hook or nail to turn each sheet and that is the way it is best to do it, returning the calendar to its place after pulling the respective sheet flat at the back between the tongue and the back or support.

Of course, any type of calendar pad may be used that may be opened vertically.

A number of changes may be made in the construction, arrangement and disposition of various parts of the invention within the scope of the appended claims, without departing from the field of the invention and it is meant to include all such Within this application wherein only one preferred form has been disclosed.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to protect by Letters Patent is:

1. In combination in a calendar, a back provided with a lateral opening therethrough and provided with spaced kerfs extending from the upper edge of said opening downwardly beyond said opening and forming therebetween a flexible tongue integral with said back and yieldable relatively to said back, said tongue bridging said opening, and a calendar pad secured to said back adjacent said opening and in position to have its leaves passed through said opening and between said tongue and back when they have been used and reversed.

2. In combination in a calendar, a back provided with a lateral opening therethrough for the passage of used calendar sheets, a flexible tongue, said tongue being formed integrally with and from the material of said back by spaced kerfs coincident with the longitudinal edges of said tongue, out completely through the material of said back and extending from the lower edge of said lateral opening to the lower end of the tongue; said tongue extending from the upper edge of said opening downwardly across and flexibly bridging said opening and continuing longitudinally through said back a distance approximately equal to that of a calendar adapted to be mounted on said back, said tongue merging integrally with said back at both ends; and a calendar pad secured to said back adjacent said opening and in position to have its leaves passed through said opening and between said tongue and back when they have been used and reversed, the yield of the tongue permitting such operation and the resiliency of the tongue acting to hold the sheets between it and the back.

LESTER B. MARTIN. 

